Quotes About Future

Go," Jet told Franny. "What's meant to happen will.

It was so much easier to see another person's future than it was to understand your own. Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

She'll be imagining everything that's out in front of them, road and cloud and sky, all the elements of a future, the sort you have to put together by hand, slowly and carefully, until the world is yours once more.

They both always wished for the same thing when they were sitting on the roof of the aunts' house on those hot, lonely nights. Sometime in the future, when they were both all grown up, they wanted to look up at the stars and not be afraid. This is the night they had wished for. This is that future, right now. And they can stay out as long as they want to, they can remain on the lawn until every star has faded, and still be there to watch the perfect blue sky at noon.

She has never told anyone, but she knew as soon as she saw him that she'd marry Ivan. It was less love at first sight than some deep knowledge that he was the man she would someday fall in love with.

When you look into your own future, you may see only what you want to see, and even the wisest woman can make a mistake, especially in matters of love.

What is behind you is gone, what is in front of you awaits.

let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.

It was best to step into the future while it was still waiting for you.

She had the distinct impression that something was beginning and something was ending; there were just so many days like this left to them. Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and there they'd be, grown women who'd forgotten how long a summer could last.

Trust no one, make your own future, love with all your heart.

Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and there they'd be, grown women who'd forgotten how long a summer could last.

The future was spun from moments like this. If she backed away, it might all unravel.

had felt a chill, as if she brought the future with her, clinging to her clothes.

He could have left out the fact that one had but a few hours to live, while the other had another life entirely still before him. This one. With her arms around her

Some vestige of his race or of his sex made him think, whenever he looked out across the ocean: As it was before me and as it will be long after I'm gone. For the second time today, he touched his thumb to his fingertips. He could make it to the 1980s or 1990s, perhaps even to the next century, when the new baby would be grown, maybe with children of his or her own. But even with the best of luck, it would not be equal to the time he'd already spent.

Terrible things were ahead of her: Jacob would go to Vietnam. Her father's surgery had made him an old man. And how would she bear the empty world without her mother in it? There was college to look forward to, boyfriends, marriage, maybe children of her own, but terrible things, too, were attached to any future. What you needed, she thought, was Susan's ability, her courage, to fix your eyes on the point at which the worst things would be over, gotten through.

I did not understand why Alfrida looked at him with such a fiercely encouraging smile. All of my experience of a woman with men, of a woman listening to her man, hoping and hoping that he will establish himself as somebody she can reasonably be proud of, was in the future.

Eu disse que a única coisa que me incomodava, um pouco, era o fato de haver uma pressuposição de que nada mais ia acontecer na nossa vida. Nada importante para nós, nada que precisasse ainda ser resolvido.

You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

Finally, I thought, I had reached the future that was no future.